Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Bill Cosby

Baby Davy: a 3D ultrasound of our baby at only 12 weeks! Technology is amazing...

Friday, May 7, 2010

Wow- it's been quite a long time! I'm now 36 weeks and I can hardly believe it! I really never thought I'd ever get to the end of the pregnancy- it seemed like it would just go on forever. At the very most, Baby should be born no later than 4 weeks from now (hopefully sooner)? I am so ready to have this baby and meet our child for the first time!

Up til now, whenever I envision Baby, I just have such a hard time imagining the face. I am so excited just to see Baby's face. There's already a strong connection that Baby and I have, but seeing Baby's face will make such a big difference to me, I think. I can't wait. It's like waiting for Christmas x 100...

I'm feeling fairly ok still, although I have up and down days. Sleeping is the hardest part because I have a lot of pelvic girdle pain as the ligaments are stretching to allow for maximum flexibility when Baby is on the way through. It's so hard to find a comfortable position when sleeping. I find that sometimes I need to change positions at night every 15 minutes to alleviate the pressure. It can be very painful and does not make for a good night's sleep. I'm quite slow, too, haha. I walk like an old lady, everyone else seems like they are moving so fast. That part I don't mind so much. The world moves too fast anyway, so I can afford to slow down- there's nowhere I really need to be except where I happen to be at any given moment, at this point.

I'm so big now that I really feel ready for Baby to come. Baby weighed in at 3.6 kg (about 8 lbs!!!) this week, and is probably going to be on the big side when delivery day comes! It's a little daunting to hear that Baby is already so big, but I'd rather that than a sickly, underweight little one. :)

Contractions are coming almost every night now. They aren't really painful, just a little uncomfortable. I am looking forward to the real ones, if you can believe it, because that will mean Baby is coming! :)

Although we already know, we want you to guess! Is Baby Davy a:

About Us

In January 2008 Dan and Julie began dating. A couple of old romantics, it very quickly took on the appearance of an old-fashioned courtship and before too long, they realized their vocations to marriage had been found in each other. On May 18, the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, Dan proposed to Julie while hiking in the mountains in Maryland, and a year less two days later, on May 16, 2009 they were married!
After a honeymoon in Bermuda, they spent a very idyllic, happy summer in Maryland and then were off to Dunedin, New Zealand by September in hopes of a PhD for Dan by 2012. Within 3 weeks of arriving in their new land, they discovered some wonderful news! They were parents of a very small, growing human being whom they will be blessed to meet sometime around June 2, 2010. They can hardly wait.